Indian Tech, Bachelor of Arts / Science; Stanford U, Master of Business Administration

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Married, 4 children

Venture capitalist continues to flog the green theme: dismisses wind power, electric cars as too expensive, unreliable to become mainstream. Says efforts should go to solving greenhouse-gas emissions from cement, oil, coal, steel industries; still bullish on ethanol. India-born engineer came to U.S. to attend grad school at Carnegie Mellon. With partners, founded Sun Microsystems in 1985. Four years later joined Sun investor John Doerr at venture outfit Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Split in 2004 to start Khosla Ventures. Recently raised $1 billion across 2 funds to invest in clean tech, IT.